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Sharing agent skills across a company: where a Git repo falls short

Juan Viera Garcia — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:50:34 +0000

Keeping agent skills in a shared Git repo works well when everyone is comfortable with Git and can read the same files. Things get awkward when Finance, HR, and IT need to use and update them too.

My co-founder Ali wrote about that transition at Bevel. The tricky example: one change touches an IT offboarding instruction and a Finance document. Both owners need to approve it, but neither should automatically get access to the other department's contents.

That leaves three separate things to design:

Who can read each skill and its supporting documents.
Who can propose changes, and whose approval is required.
How someone who doesn't use Git can participate.

We built Hexis around those requirements: keep Markdown and Git history, put permissions and review around them, and let people connect through their agent. It's open source.

If a shared repo already meets your team's needs, that's a good place to stay. The extra layer becomes useful when access and ownership differ across teams.

Ali's full article, with the review workflow and screenshots.

Who's heard of UTCP?? #mcp #ai

Juan Viera Garcia — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:42:13 +0000

UTCP: A safer, more scalable alternative to MCP

Juan Viera Garcia — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:25:57 +0000

Juan Viera Garcia

Jul 18 '25

Everything You Need to Know About UTCP, the Alternative to MCP That’s Going Viral 🚀

#mcp #opensource #ai #api

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Everything You Need to Know About UTCP, the Alternative to MCP That’s Going Viral 🚀

Juan Viera Garcia — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:25:11 +0000

TL;DR
UTCP is a zero‑wrapper, direct‑call protocol that lets AI agents talk to any tool (HTTP, gRPC, CLI—even legacy SOAP) without spinning up a proxy server. Think “DNS for tools.” Faster, cheaper, and simpler than Model Context Protocol (MCP).

1️⃣ Why MCP Feels Heavy

The “Wrapper Tax” in 20 seconds

Middleman servers for every tool → more code, infra + latency
Custom auth / logging / rate‑limits duplicated in each wrapper
Two network hops (Agent ➜ MCP ➜ Tool) = slow
Bigger attack surface & maintenance overhead

2️⃣ UTCP in a Nutshell

Describe once, call direct.

// minimal UTCP manifest
{
  "version": "1.0",
  "tools": [{
    "name": "get_weather",
    "inputs": { "city": "string" },
    "provider": {
      "type": "http",
      "method": "GET",
      "url": "https://api.weather.example/?city={{city}}"
    }
  }]
}

Agent downloads the manifest (one GET).
Calls the tool’s native endpoint—no proxy, no extra hop.
Uses the tool’s existing auth & rate‑limit rules.

3️⃣ Why Devs Love It

Fast list for your boss (or tweet‑thread).

Zero wrapper tax → just ship a JSON file
Latency‑free — single hop, native protocol
Works with anything: REST, gRPC, WebSocket, CLI, SOAP
Plug‑and‑play — copy/paste manifest, you’re done
Community‑driven — contributors from MIT, Cambridge & beyond 🌍

4️⃣ When MCP Still Wins

Edge cases only.

Use MCP	Use UTCP
Need centralized stateful workflows	Need raw speed
Strict, uniform interface across org	Heterogeneous tools / rapid prototyping
Can afford wrapper maintenance	Want no extra infra

5️⃣ Quick Start

pip install utcp   # Python client
utcp run providers.json   # load manifests & call tools

Drop your manifest at /utcp or a Git repo.
Point your agent to the providers list.
Watch the latency vanish.

6️⃣ The Bottom Line

UTCP rips out the proxy layer, lets AI agents hit tools directly, and cuts dev+infra cost to near zero. If you’re building agents today, try UTCP first—then reach for MCP only when you truly need a heavyweight hub.

Links:

Spec & docs: utcp.io
Python client: github.com/universal-tool-calling-protocol/python-utcp

✌️ Happy hacking, and drop your own manifests in the comments to keep the momentum rolling!

DEV Community: Juan Viera Garcia

Sharing agent skills across a company: where a Git repo falls short

Who's heard of UTCP?? #mcp #ai

UTCP: A safer, more scalable alternative to MCP

Everything You Need to Know About UTCP, the Alternative to MCP That’s Going Viral 🚀

Everything You Need to Know About UTCP, the Alternative to MCP That’s Going Viral 🚀

1️⃣ Why MCP Feels Heavy

2️⃣ UTCP in a Nutshell

3️⃣ Why Devs Love It

4️⃣ When MCP Still Wins

5️⃣ Quick Start

6️⃣ The Bottom Line

A new safer, more scalable alternative to MCP!

UTCP: The DNS of the Agentic World

Vishal Agrawal ・ Jul 18

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UTCP: The DNS of the Agentic World

Vishal Agrawal ・ Jul 18